Why the antibiotic Regimen is IgnoredWhyABprotocolisIgnored.Htm

These protocols apply to Mycoplasmas, C. pneumonia,
Borrelia (Lyme), Streptococcus pneumonia L-forms, and persistent CWD
L-form bacteria of many other species.Physicians
may be reluctant to use the long-term, low-dose tetracyclines antibioticregimen1as
advocated by Dr. Brown for any of several psychological or economic reasons:

•The Herxheimer reaction may be mistaken for an allergic
reaction to the antibiotic and the patient is ordered to stop using the
protocol, which is not restarted with antioxidant vitamins and
anti-inflammatory complement drugs; or the patient loses confidence in the
doctor and stops the treatment during the first microbe die off.

•Appropriate non-pill forms of the antibiotic are not convenient
to administer and pill forms are likely to result gut dysbiosis if probiotics
are not ordered as part of the treatment; really severe cases require IV over
weeks.

•Antibiotics in the gut promote the evolution of drug-resistant
microbes by exchange of plasmids; shots are a better alternative, but patient
must visit doctor’s office many times for these.

•Physicians are not familiar with the appropriate complex
combined/sequential antibiotic administration protocols for long-term
treatment;[1]
some practitioner resistance to Trevor
Marshall’s protocol due to learning curve.

•Many physicians have not had the training to interpret the
test results correctly and authoritatively; many tests have high false negative
results or are equivocal in their results, especially Lyme disease tests.

•Specific diagnostic tests for mycoplasma infection and complex
immune assays are not on approved labs’ authorized lists for HMOs and insurance
coverage. They are costly, and administrators have no way for patients to pay
for or share the cost. Patients may be unwilling to pay for them.

•Many patients are not disciplined enough to stay the course of
a sustained treatment lasting months or years, even if it is clearly explained
to be beneficial; but some are highly motivated and succeed.

•Tetracycline-type antibiotics are not promoted by the drug
companies compared to high-profit NSAIDs and DMARDs, but they should be used
together for maximum benefit;[2]
Along with antioxidant vitamins especially A, C, E, coconut oil, red palm oil,
palm kernel oil, and omega 3 oils.

•Doctors may be reluctant to use antibiotics because they have
been indiscriminately over-prescribed in the past; doctrine calls for minimal
use of antibiotics instead of combinations with maximum microbe sensitivities.

•When combined antibiotics are necessary, the treatment may be
hard to understand in a time-varying protocol; see: Marshall
protocol.

•Some rheumatologists cling steadfastly to an approved list of
drugs and treatments, to the exclusion of any alternatives; they do not like it
when antibiotics reveal latent lupus or other infections that are bad news and
hard to treat.

•Laws still say doctors must use CDC (Lyme) study criteria;
these minimize false positives by maximizing false negatives, but these
criteria fail to work at all as clinical tests. Borrelia burgdorferi are hard
to kill.

•The patient may get worse initially before getting better because
the Herxheimer reaction is not understood or anticipated, or not explained to
the patient, who just might use the reaction as an excuse to bring legal
action.

•Managed care works adversely against doctors who prescribe
long-term treatment. Cost controllers try to find reasons to deny any treatment
or specialist referral that does not bring short-term results; (Long time =
higher cost)

•Clinicians may prefer the actual success in the short term
with anti inflammatory prescription drugs. Even if a relapse may occur.
Diagnosis of polyinfections and treatment is harder than just treating the
symptoms. A long-term treatment that eventually succeeds has short-term immune
flares that need special treatments. Once the symptoms stop, the patient loses
interest in further treatment.

•Medical boards and insurance companies have punished doctors
who have prescribed long-term antibiotic protocols for Lyme, RA, and other
diseases. Only a few States have passed doctors’ protection acts;[3]

•Doctors are unable to provide the nutritional advice required
to restore the patient’s immune system to proper balance in addition to the
antibiotic therapy.

[1]
RA patients should show their doctors Appendix II of the book, Rheumatoid
Arthritis: The Infection Connection, written by a medical doctor explaining
the details of Dr. Brown’s antibiotic treatment. Alternatively see the more
detailed protocol
description on the Road Back Foundation website